Breakdown of Nós pomos as luvas antes de trabalhar.
nós
we
trabalhar
to work
antes de
before
pôr
to put
a luva
the glove
Questions & Answers about Nós pomos as luvas antes de trabalhar.
Wait, pomos ends in -mos, so is pôr treated like an -er verb here?
Yes! Pôr is a highly irregular verb that doesn't fit the standard -ar, -er, or -ir groups. However, because it originally evolved from an older Latin verb ending in -er, its present tense endings often look like typical -er endings. For the nós (we) form, it simply becomes pomos.
Can pôr be used for putting on all clothing, or just accessories like gloves?
Why does the English translation say 'working' but the Portuguese uses the infinitive trabalhar (to work)?
In English, we often use the -ing form of a verb after words like 'before' or 'after'. In Portuguese, whenever you have a preposition like de, the verb that follows must be in its infinitive (unconjugated) form. That is why the sentence uses antes de trabalhar.
Would it be wrong to just say antes trabalhar without the de?
Yes, it would be incorrect. When you want to say 'before doing something', the set phrase in Portuguese is antes de. You always need the preposition de to connect antes to the action that follows it.
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